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Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 2] 2022
► pp. 37–62

Chapter 4
Methods in corpus linguistics

Article outline
  • 1.Two ways of analysing a corpus
  • 2.Studying frequency
    • 2.1Frequency lists
    • 2.2Dispersion
    • 2.3Co-occurrence
    • 2.4Calculating association measures
      • 2.4.1Expected frequency and observed frequency
      • 2.4.2Co-occurrence tables
      • 2.4.3Calculating association measures
    • 2.5Comparing frequencies
  • 3.Studying language in context
    • 3.1Using concordancers: Sampling and sorting
    • 3.2Using concordancers: Search terms
  • 4.Commonly used corpus tools and resources
    • 4.1Corpora
    • 4.2Tools for building a corpus
    • 4.3Tools for analysing a corpus
  • 5.Conclusion
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